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She said it was only when she started to trying for a baby and was unable to get pregnant that her endometriosis, which had caused a cyst on her ovary, was discovered.

"He has a hernia on his hip the size of a tennis ball, a hole in his heart, no kneecaps, no tibia bone in both of his legs, club foot and a cyst on the bottom of his spine."

In November, she underwent surgery after a colloid cyst was found earlier that month during a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work.

Irwin wrote that after "13 years of fighting for answers" and two surgeries where she had 51 lesions, a cyst and her appendix removed, she was finally on the mend.

The inquest also heard that doctors subsequently discovered a cyst on her brain.